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  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
  • Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
  • I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
  • If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
  • The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
  • Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
  • Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
  • Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
  • I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
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  • John F. Kennedy A child miseducated is a child lost.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Basil of Caesarea A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Ferdinand Foch A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • William Wordsworth Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Joseph Addison To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Hitopadesa When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
    than never to have loved at all.
    In Memoriam A. H. H.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Ferdinand Foch A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams A friend in power is a friend lost.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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